Movies: Your guilty pleasures

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My guilty pleasures are the horde of very low budget bad movies they show almost any Saturday on SyFy Channel, like this past month: Jersey Shore Shark Attack, Pirhanhaconda, Arachnoquake (an earthquake in New Orleans releases deadly spiders) and this past weekend: Bigfoot, starring Danny Partridge as a Rock DJ trying to put on a concert & Greg Brady as an environmentalist trying to stop it (and a bigfoot killing everybody in sight (including Alice Cooper)).
 
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I have this urge to watch some cheesy early 90's action comedies.

Adventures of Ford Fairlane and The Last Boyscout

any other suggestions?
 
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Running Scared and The Usual Suspects have the two best "Line-up" scenes ever. But I would watch Young Frankenstein anytime.
 
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Repo Man was on TV this past weekend. Sooooo gooood. For so many reasons.
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jerseydevil said:
Running Scared w/ Billy Crystal/Gregory Hines and Dead Heat with Treat williams/Joe Piscopo
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Great call jd - one of my guilty pleasures as well. I am reading Billy Crystal's book right now ("Still Foolin' 'Em"). He mentions Running Scared as one of his all time favorite times in making a movie especially with Gregory Hines. They loved doing their own stunts. Crystal notes he had never fired a gun, fake or real, until this movie. He says,

"...before that I'd never even had one in my hand, unless you count using my index finger as a kid to shoot the bad guys: 'Bam bam bam.' The first day of filming was a shoot-out scene in a dingy drug dealer's apartment. With movie bullets flying around me, I would have to run into a room, dive onto the floor, and shoot my pistol three times. I did the first take, hit the ground, and fired the pistol. Peter yelled, 'Cut,' the crew applauded, and he called me over to the monitor, where he was cueing up the video playback. I was jazzed - this was a real movie! We watched the playback, and there I was, Mr. Tough Guy. I flew into the room, looking like a real cop, hit the floor, and when I fired the pistol, I shouted, 'Bam bam bam!' 'You don't have to make the sound - the gun will,' joked Peter (Hyams, director). I had no idea I'd said the word."
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Great read if you at all like Billy Crystal. He is one of a kind as was Gregory Hines.
 
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This thread got bumped! Yay!

Repo Man was on TV this past weekend. Sooooo gooood. For so many reasons.
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Image link was broken for me. Anyway, Repo Man is definitely among the all-time favorites. Amazingly still way more relevant than I would have imagined.
 
The Last Action Hero probably also fits the bill.

Come to think of it, as late-'80s/early-'90s-style action-comedies go, I think Iron Man 3 is a great one.
 
roenick said:
Great call jd - one of my guilty pleasures as well. I am reading Billy Crystal's book right now ("Still Foolin' 'Em"). He mentions Running Scared as one of his all time favorite times in making a movie especially with Gregory Hines. They loved doing their own stunts. Crystal notes he had never fired a gun, fake or real, until this movie. He says,



Great read if you at all like Billy Crystal. He is one of a kind as was Gregory Hines.
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Aw man...Gregory Hines died way too young. I can quote this movie, much to Kingsqueen's eternal torment. Uncle Rico was in it as well as Manolo from Scarface. God I love that movie too much.
 
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